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Sony has released the first trailer for the raunchy comedy “No Hard Feelings,” in which Jennifer Lawrence plays a woman who answers two helicopter parents’ Craigslist ad to sleep with their sheltered 19-year-old son before he goes to college.

The very R-rated trailer opens with Lawrence’s character Maddie approaching the awkward Percy at a dog adoption center, asking “Mind if I touch your wiener?” before revealing he’s holding a Dachshund wiener dog. On the brink of losing her childhood home, Maddie resorts to every last-ditch effort to fulfill the parents’ questionable request and sleep with Percy. She skinny dips, plies him with Long Island ice tea and, in one hilarious scene, kidnaps him in a van before getting pepper sprayed in the face.

In addition to Lawrence, the cast includes Andrew Barth Feldman as Percy, Matthew Broderick as his father, Laura Benanti as his mother, plus Natalie Morales, Hasan Minhaj, Kyle Mooney, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Scott MacArthur and more. Producers include Lawrence, Alex Saks, Naomi Odenkirk, Marc Provissiero, Justine Ciarrocchi and executive producers John Phillips and Kerry Orent.

Gene Stupnitsky directs “No Hard Feelings” from a script he wrote with John Phillips. Previously, Stupnitsky made the equally raunchy 2019 comedy “Good Boys,” a coming-of-age film starring Jacob Tremblay, and co-wrote 2011’s “Bad Teacher” and 2009’s “Year One.”

Lawrence is coming off a resurgence in the past couple years, including starring in last year’s Apple TV+ drama “Causeway,” plus Netflix’s end-of-the-world comedy “Don’t Look Up” in 2021.

“No Hard Feelings” opens in theaters on June 23. Watch the R-rated trailer below.

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Director Gene Stupnitsky has set his next feature. No Hard Feelings, starring Jennifer Lawrence, is set to hit theaters next year.

Stupnitsky made his feature directorial debut with 2019’s Good Boys from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s company Point Grey Pictures. No Hard Feelings will follow in the same vein, telling a similar coming-of-age tale through a comedy-drama lens. He is no stranger to the director’s chair, previously working in television directing two episodes of The Office. Stupnitsky is penning the screenplay in collaboration with John Phillips.

Lead star Jennifer Lawrence is also attached as a producer with her company Excellent Cadaver. No Hard Feelings will mark the second Lawrence-led feature for her production company, after 2022’s acclaimed Causeway for Apple TV+. In addition to Lawrence, Naomi Odenkirk, Justine Polsky, and Marc Provissiero will serve as co-producers through Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment. Sony Pictures Releasing won No Hard Feelings’ distribution rights after a major bidding war where they reportedly fended off big competition from Apple, Netflix, and Universal Pictures.

With that, let’s look at everything we currently know about Gene Stupnitsky’s No Hard Feelings. What can we expect from the story, and how will it mix up the standard “coming-of-age” formula? In addition to Jennifer Lawrence, who is lined up in the cast? When and where can we see the film when it is released? And what else should audiences know about No Hard Feelings?
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